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	John Crowe Ransom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee.
		At age fifteen, Ransom entered Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from that institution in 1909 at age 21.
		In 1914 Ransom was appointed to the English department at Vanderbilt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Crowe_Ransom (355 words)

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		John Crowe Ransom, a member of the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University, is known for his poetry, which allows for individual readers' interpretation.
		John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee, the next to the youngest of four children, two boys and two girls, of John James Ransom and the former Ella Crowe.
		Ransom, being an Agrarian, never organized himself into an active movement, however, and although they wrote and lectured for a cause, the filminess of their coarse utopia was demonstrated when the depression laid waste to the Agrarian South.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/ransom_john_tn.htm (1301 words)

	Ohio Reading Road Trip \| John Crowe Ransom Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Crowe Ransom is often called a "major minor poet," one who made a significant contribution to literature, but is not widely read.
		Ransom was home-schooled until he was ten years old, at which point he entered public school and then Nashville's Bowen School, one of the preparatory schools.
		Ransom died in his sleep on the Kenyon campus, and his ashes are buried behind the school library.
	www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org /ransom (867 words)

	Special Collections: John Crowe Ransom Papers
		John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee.
		Ransom retired in 1959, but remained active in literary pursuits until his death in 1974 at the age of eighty-six.
		Ransom's biographer, Thomas Daniel Young (Gentleman In A Dustcoat), noted that Ransom saved few letters from his wide range of correspondents and "even fewer of the manuscripts of his poems and essays, and almost none of the material relating to his literary career" (Young, xvi).
	www.library.vanderbilt.edu /speccol/ransomjc.shtml (530 words)

	John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
		Focusing on Ransom's use of language, his wit and irony, seems to be the best route to exploring his themes on a level that students will respond to.
		Ransom is so closely related to the metaphysical poets whom he knew so thoroughly that exploring this aspect of his style and form is particularly useful, as is any consideration of his juxtaposition of different levels of diction and his use of surprising words or word forms.
		Ransom can be productively compared to other Fugitive poets, especially to Allen Tate in his wit and irony; to metaphysical poets, both early and modern; to the tradition of the elegy; and to other writers who explore the same subject matter, for example,"Philomela" to The Waste Land.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/ransom.html (606 words)

	John Crowe Ransom's Life and Career
		ANSOM, John Crowe (30 Apr. l888-3 July 1974), poet and critic, was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, the son of John James Ransom, a Methodist minister, and Ella Crowe.
		Ransom was appointed to an instructorship in Vanderbilt's English department in 1914 and, apart from service as an artillery officer in France during World War I, remained there until his departure for Kenyon College in Ohio in 1937.
		While he is often referred to as a "major minor poet," Ransom was fully convinced of the importance of the kind of contribution he had to make: "With a serious poet each minor poem may be a symbol of a major decision.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/ransom/life.htm (1482 words)

	John Crow Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ransom published three slim volumes of highly acclaimed poetry, but after 1927 principally devoted himself to critical writing.
		He was a guiding member of the Fugitives, a group of writers who were wary of the social and cultural changes they were witnessing in the South during the early part of the 20th century.
		As a critic, he had an enormous influence on an entire generation of poets and fellow academics, who subscribed to the doctrines he laid out as the "new criticism." His ideals were John Donne and the English metaphysical poetry of the 17th century.
	www.nathanielturner.com /johncrow_ransom.htm (159 words)

	John Crowe Ransom, 1888-1974. American author and critic
		John Crowe Ransom was born in 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee.
		John Crowe Ransom to Weldon Kees 1939: Oct. 25.
		letter signed, from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Duncan, further explaining his rejection of "The African Elegy," and disagreeing that it ought to be printed on the basis of the right of free speech.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/ransom/ransom.html (425 words)

	John Crowe Ransom, 1888-1974 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Crowe Ransom was born 30 April 1888 in Pulaski, Tenn., the third of five children of Methodist minister John James Ransom and his wife Ella Crowe Ransom.
		Ransom, an already-published poet and a respected teacher, was sought out for advice and judgment by such younger members of the group as Donald Davidson and Allen Tate (and later Warren, Andrew Lytle, Jesse Wills, and others).
		Although Ransom had left the South and had abandoned the agrarian program, he remained a staunch spokesman for the aesthetic and ethical values formulated in the essays and poems of his Vanderbilt period.
	docsouth.unc.edu /ransom/bio.html (651 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ransom John Crowe
		Ransom, John Crowe (1888-1974), American poet, a leader in the southern literary revival of the 1920s, and an influential literary critic.
		Fugitives (literature): John Crowe Ransom as leader of the Fugitives
		Tate, (John Orley) Allen (1899-1979), American poet and literary critic, one of the young writers at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s who called...
	encarta.msn.com /Ransom_John_Crowe.html (192 words)

	The Explicator: Ransom's 'Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter.' (John Crowe Ransom)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Crowe Ransom succeeds in presenting sentiment without becoming cloying in 'Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter.' The poem presents images of death of a little girl juxtaposed with images of the same child chasing geese.
		Ransom's exquisite lines are specific and intimate, conveying the sense of loss experienced at the child's death, contrary to the common observation by critics that the poem makes death seem ordinary and familiar.
		Although John Crowe Ransom's "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15324893&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (190 words)

	Townhall.com Book Service: The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald ...
		In the 1930s, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson defended southern traditions and history at a time when most Americans dismissed the South as a bastion of poverty and a citadel of reaction.
		John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson defended southern traditions and history at a time when most Americans dismissed the South as a bastion of poverty and a citadel of reaction.
		John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson were first and foremost poets, critics, and professors.
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	John Crowe Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Comparing "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" and "Dead Boy"
		A Selection of Ransom Poems from The Fugitive
		Ransom's Editorial "The Future of Poetry" from The Fugitive with a Reply by Allen Tate
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/ransom/ransom.htm (44 words)

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		John Crowe Ransom’s father, John James Ransom, had been a missionary to Brazil and at the time of his son’s birth was a minister in the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Church.
		Unusual for Ransom, most of the rhymes are full, with only the well-chosen inexactness of “daddy” and “baby” lending the second stanza a rumpled intimacy, and the lovely “Janet”/ “upon it” of the next to last stanza adding to the poem’s sense of amused gravity.
		Ransom mixes modernist with old-fashioned country rhetoric to the extent that it is hard to tell which linguistic realm “put the poison” comes from.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/15/feb97/ransom.htm (3056 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureJohn Crowe Ransom - Author Page
		John Crowe Ransom, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Pulaski, Tennessee.
		Ransom’s Agrarianism may have been inspired by the Scopes anti-evolution trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, during which reporters attacked the South for its backwardness.
		Ransom’s career illustrates a commitment to the tradition of classical learning that underlies continuing debates over core or general education requirements in American colleges and universities.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/ransom_jo.html (795 words)

	American Passages - Unit 13. Southern Renaissance: Authors
		Around that same time, Ransom became the center of a small group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives after the name of the magazine they began publishing in 1922 as an outlet for their poetry.
		Although Ransom is respected as an accomplished poet, he had always tended toward philosophical and theoretical pursuits and these came to dominate much of his literary output beginning in the late 1920s.
		For the next several years, Ransom explored Agrarianism at greater depth, while at the same time he began to write critical essays that described and defended poetry which could represent reality fully and completely without retreating into untrustworthy realms of abstraction.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit13/authors-5.html (402 words)

	Ransom, John Crowe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The invisible I: John Crowe Ransom's shadowy speaker.
		Ransom's CAPTAIN CARPENTER and Hood's FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY.
		We'll always have _ Tecala?; Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan can't add 'Life' to silly drama; Cast is held hostage by silly drama 'Proof of Life'.(Scene)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Ransom-J1.asp (449 words)

	PAL: John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
		The equilibrist; a study of John Crowe Ransom's poems, 1916-1963.
		Malvasi, Mark G. The unregenerate South: the agrarian thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.
		Stewart, John L. The burden of time: the fugitives and agrarians; the Nashville groups of the 1920's and 1930's, and the writing of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/ransom.html (491 words)

	CliffsNotes::American Poets of the 20th Century:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Ransom, a native of Tennessee and the third of four children, was born in Pulaski on April 30, 1888, to Sara Ella Crowe and the Reverend John James Ransom, a Methodist minister.
		Ransom was tops in his high school class, completed two years at Vanderbilt University, then left to teach middle grades in Taylorsville, Mississippi, and Latin and Greek at Haynes-McLean School in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
		Ransom then concentrated on essays, which he published in The World’s Body (1938) and The New Criticism (1941), a call for literary analysis that focuses on the work alone, excluding considerations of movement, age, and the author’s life.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-11,pageNum-38.html (778 words)

	American Literature Web Resources: John Crowe Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1888-John Crowe Ransom was born on April 30th, in Pulaski, Tennessee to James Ransom, a Methodist minister, and Ella Crowe.
		In this book he argued “that it was only in an agricultural society that humanity had a true perception of its place in the universe: as beings subject to suffering and death; the industrialized society tended to dull this sense of human contingency and so falsified the perception of life.”
		John Crowe Ransom was very much a part of the New Criticism Movement in literature.
	www.millikin.edu /aci/crow/chronology/ransombio.html (504 words)

	Poetry: Julia Alvarez
		In this thought-provoking assessment of Ransom’s poetry, Richard Tillinghast considers Ransom as a great “minor poet,” examining the rhythm and structure of his poetry.
		John Crowe Ransom (1888—1974) was born in Pulaski, Tennessee, the son of a preacher.
		As a critic, he promulgated the highly influential New Criticism, which focused attention on texts as self-sufficient entities, to be analyzed through rigorous methodologies intended to reveal the depth, subtleties, and intricacies of technique and theme.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/ransom.htm (262 words)

	John Crowe Ransom Biography / Biography of John Crowe Ransom Main Biography
		John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974), American poet, critic, and agrarian champion, was the center of the "Fugitive" group, of the Southern Agrarians, and of the New Critics.
		John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee., on April 30, 1888.
		As a young instructor at Vanderbilt, Ransom assembled a group of poets, calling themselves "Fugitives"; he created and edited the magazine for their expression, the Fugitive.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-crowe-ransom (250 words)

	John Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/ransom/ransom.htm An introduction to John Crowe Ransom, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" and "Dead Boy," from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois).
		http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3758/is_200101/ai_n8931146 "Form and restraint in John Crowe Ransom's Vision of community," orig.
		"Ransom produced his best and best-known poetry in the 1920s, including 'Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter,' 'Philomela,' 'Piazza Piece,' 'Equilibrists,' and 'Janet Waking.' His poetry is known for its tendency to expose the ironies of existence, primarily through short lyrics about often somber or serious domestic scenes."
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Ransom.htm (206 words)

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